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Emerging UK doom and sludge metal trio Blüdwyrm have announced the impending arrival of their debut EP, The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance. Scheduled for release on 5th June 2026, the record will be unleashed on both CD and cassette formats via South West independent label Road To Masochist.Hailing from the undulating downs of Dorset, the band lurch into existence with a sound that intentionally contradicts their picturesque regional roots. Blüdwyrm have spent their formative year forging a dirt-encrusted, down-tuned sonic profile that collisions soul-shaking doom weight with feral, raw sludge metal aggression. Despite only forming in 2025, members Leo Butterworth…
If you’ve ever been at a gig or festival and seen a dog-eared old t-shirt from tours decades passed and thought, ‘Christ, that belongs in a museum’… You might be right. In June 2025, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery unveiled a special exhibition dedicated to the life and career of Ozzy Osbourne. Titled Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero, the pop-up has received over 450,000 visitors since it opened and has now been extended to September 2026.“We knew from previous shows we’ve put on that something like this would attract a big audience,” says Toby Watley, Director of Collections and Estates…
Polish extreme metal titans Behemoth have joined forces with Massacre Records for the worldwide physical distribution of their upcoming exclusive release, I, Scvlptor. Scheduled for a simultaneous global street date on 4th September 2026, the unique body of work will be made available across CD, vinyl, cassette, and limited-edition box set configurations.Comprising 40 minutes of previously unreleased material, I, Scvlptor acts as an autonomous full-length effort bridging the band’s historic roots with modern extreme textures. Beyond showcasing fresh compositions packed with the incendiary live energy that has made the band an arena-level global draw, the record also features resurrected versions…
Finnish sludge metal act Themata have officially released their massive new single, “Monochrome.” The track continues the uncompromising sonic direction established on last year’s debut EP, Riven, while pushing the band’s sound into much more organic and dynamic territory.On “Monochrome,” the group expands their sonic palette without sacrificing the sheer, suffocating weight that defines their identity. The track delivers an evolving, natural flow where towering walls of guitars, a crushing rhythm section, and a brutal vocal delivery all lock tightly into place. Comprising members from notable Finnish acts like Atlases, Grave With A View, and I, Cursed, the quintet has…
Codename Colin (c) Gary CooperMy second visit to King Tuts’s this year (I should go more often – it’s a cracking venue and there’s a gig on almost every night) after it hosting my first gig of 2026. Tonight promised to be fun, given the lineup, but first I had interview duties which meant I missed the start of Codename Colin‘s set.The four piece were the perfect openers for tonight’s headliners, musically in the same sort of ballpark – but more importantly they were charismatic and bouncy, and very much insistent that the audience join in the early revelry. Not…
International melodic death metal powerhouse Fimbul Winter have officially released their thunderous new single, “Crowned In Ash.” The track marks the latest sonic offering from the group following the success of their 2025 debut EP, What Once Was.Boasting a lineup that features three former members of Amon Amarth – including founding members Niko Kaukinen and Anders Biazzi alongside drummer Fredrik Andersson—the band was completed in 2023 by vocalist Clint Williams. Operating out of both Stockholm, Sweden and Melbourne, Australia, the project initially sparked from a spontaneous reunion performance of Amon Amarth’s legendary 1994 demo, The Arrival of the Fimbul Winter.…
Highly regarded Canadian folkies continue to impress with album number seven.Formed in 2005, Canadian folkies The Fugitives have, over the subsequent eleven years, garnered themselves quite a reputation for delivering memorable live shows full of infectious energy. The band’s most recent video, Holy Strength, was showcased on these pages a few weeks ago, and the sheer verve their music broadcasts was writ large. The video was a teaser ahead of the band’s eponymously titled seventh album, and, for those unfamiliar with The Fugitives, it is a perfect scene-setter for the album.Holy Strength is one of a trio of similarly paced…
Credit: Pat JohnsonPeter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on the West Coast and encompasses punk rock, new wave, acoustic rock and contemporary folk, though his songwriting has always been at the heart of what he does. His first recording band was The Nerves, which he formed in 1974 with Jack Lee and Paul Collins in 1976. They were influential in the emerging punk and new wave scenes in San Francisco and…
The Overmono Lockup listen moment is here, and it arrives with a bigger announcement attached: brothers Tom and Ed Russell have confirmed a brand new album titled Pure Devotion. If you have been following the duo since their early Trusss releases or caught one of their relentless live sets, this is the news you have been waiting for. And from the sounds of it, the record is going to be something genuinely different. What makes Pure Devotion sound so intriguing before you have even heard the full thing is how the Russells made it. The brothers have been unusually candid…
Originally published in Uncut, November 2017. THE invitations, remembers one guest, were printed in blue, red and purple psychedelic designs. In keeping with the switched-on spirit of the times, the party they described was to be fancy dress. Accordingly, the soirée at the newly opened Westbourne Suite at the Royal Lancaster Hotel was a grand affair. The 200 guests enjoyed an extravagant buffet, drinks and splendid views across London’s Hyde Park. It was December 21, 1967. The occasion was The Beatles’ fabled Christmas Party – an annual event hosted for friends, family and an ever-expanding entourage. John Lennon came as…
The tour, titled The Rats In A Cage Tour, will see the Pumpkins play “two distinct sets” that each celebrate “the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness plus nearly four decades of hits and dark treasures.” Smashing Pumpkins will hit the road at the end of September – right after taking their orchestral and operatic re-imagining of Mellon Collie across the UK and Europe – beginning in Columbus, Ohio. The tour will then continue across North America throughout October and November. Smashing Pumpkins’ Rat In A Cage 2026 tour: September 30 Columbus, OH – The Schottenstein Center…
When Emmylou Harris made her UK debut at London’s New Victoria Theatre in November 1975, she was barely a year into a solo career precipitated by tragic circumstance. In September 1973, her mentor and singing partner Gram Parsons fatally overdosed in a desert motel room, before the release of Grievous Angel, their second album together.At a time when she and Parsons should have been taking their music to even greater heights, she found herself a guardian of Gram’s legacy – even as she made the new musical life for herself she has lived now for over 50 years, during which…